deb.li - the Debian ShortURL service

deb.li is a shortURL service for Debian related usage, hosted and developed by BerndZeimetz. The service is also available under the domain go.debian.net. To ensure that deb.li is not used by random spammers, adding new URLs is limited to a json-rpc web-interface for now, which is only accessible from a limited list of IPs.

Basically - yes. But please make sure it doesn't end up in DOSing the service. It is appreciated if you would contact BerndZeimetz (bzed@debian.org) before adding a huge amount of URLs, maybe there is a faster and/or better way than the json-rpc interface.

Will there be other ways to add URLs to the service?

An email-gateway is planned, but not implemented yet. It will accept gpg-signed control mails, similar to db.debian.org.

Clone the git repository from ?git://git.recluse.de/debian/godebian-client.git or http://git.recluse.de/repos/debian/godebian-client.git and read the README. Also there is a checked out version on alioth.debian.org - have a look into ~bzed/godebian-client aka /var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/users/bzed/godebian-client.

I'd like to use deb.li ShortURLs in my CIA bot messages, is this possible?

Yes, sure. have a look at deb.li/ciabot - the ciabot.py script in the example client repository. Please note that the script is a bit customized for alioth, so make sure it works properly for you when you use it somewhere else.